Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.
Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!
Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏
And for the nerds among us, we have a page on all the details that went into this - including our initial ticket coverage & how the search works: https://www.railfinder.eu/how-it-works
Ask me anything!
Bravo!
@stefanlindbohm Proposing routes in France with more than 2 connections could be a game changer (as SNCF API doesn't allow that).
But how are passenger rights going to work? Isn't there a risk of losing users after a bad experience (i.e. missed connection, and no possibility to hop on the next train) ?
@cartotrain And transfers longer than 2.5 hours, I learned recently :)
But yes indeed, for these cases we need to split the tickets and that puts all responsibility on the passenger. We try to combine as much as possible, but don’t hide results if it’s not. We will improve the info shown on the consequences of this though.
And hopefully we can do more to protect the transfers in the future, but that’s for later
Stefan Lindbohm
cartotrain